Came here to bring up the DNC burning Bernie. Hard to trust after that fiasco.
Came here to bring up the DNC burning Bernie. Hard to trust after that fiasco.
We have tools both new and old to work collectively against megacorp consolidation and we can do it directly in the market. Here’s what I would love to see more of:
Equity crowdfunding: Let’s have users/communities/customer bases finance new companies at the seed stage instead of relying almost exclusively on venture/investment banking-backed startups. I believe this greatly reduces the misalignment of stakeholder interests in finance/business even if they otherwise operate as conventional hierarchies. When customers own the business profit is no longer the fixation. It has to be self-sustaining but beyond that the focus can be on the ethical, sustained production and distribution of the good or service itself.
Buying collectives: Let’s leverage our buying power to receive lower prices and have more say in the ethics of supply chains. This can happen at the individual level and amongst cooperative/independent/small chain retailers. This combined with equity crowdfunding implies an opportunity to work our way up (and down) the supply chain from consumer to retailer to distributors to manufacturer to collaborate with it when necessary compete with incumbents.
Open Source R&D via Invective Prizes: Ever heard of the X-Prize? Imagine a crowdfunding platform where the crowd determines the goals for projects and contributes to the purse and people/teams compete to solve it. The winning submission open sources their result in exchange for the prize. This gives the crowd an alternative to corporate-funded IP held behind walled gardens purely to extract profit.
Open, interoperable web infrastructure: Most features of social media platforms could be baked into protocols and made readable by any 3rd party software that chooses to integrate it. The fediverse we’re posting on right now is a great example. We have to have free, open digital communications to have agency as free peoples.
All these options reside naturally in a market-based economy and IMO empower political action while not inherently relying on it. It’s a powerful “yes, and”.
Wefwef sent me from concerned lemmy isnt quite ready to all in. Total 180.
An independent analysis of 15,000 EV batteries finds that most don't need to be replaced until they're well over a decade old.
Not to mention the $7500 tax credit and if you’re in CA there’s also a tax rebate (they send you a check).
TIL Margot Robbie has strong opinions about encrypted messaging apps. My respect grows by the day.
Advanced Data Protection has a social recovery option that does not require end users maintaining a security key. It’s far more accessible to average users than one might think, though perhaps still a bit intimidating.
Wait is it black and blue in the thumbnail for this post? I forgot how much this messed with my head. I honestly see white and gold.
I was shot down mid-scroll. Brutal.
Same reason I did. If you figure it out please let me know.
disingenuously points to the indecipherable ToS
Hades is a phenomenal roguelite. Can’t wait for the sequel!
Good for you but what about the search engine?
Nice try spam marketing dept
Not with the $7500 federal tax credit, let alone (for CA) residents the tax rebate. It’s not for everyone yet but there’s plenty of people there Bolt is perfect for.
Source: bought one. Is great.
We have everything we need to stop it, we’re just spun and poorly organized (by design).
It wanted a hell of a lot more than that. Did you see the list of permissions?
Meanwhile we’ve hit the elbow in the adoption curve for solar, wind, and EVs with grid-level batteries also on a major upswing.
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I guess theyre called servers. I’d love a less technical name for them though.
Counterpoint: it’s not about capturing the current audience so much as heading a threat off at the pass.
I’m not going to argue way or other re: defederation. Just putting myself in their shoes and looking at the field they’re entering. They likely recognize there’s a brief window right now to capture twitter’s disaffected audience as they stumble while a nontrivial subset of those users are exploring open-source, non-corporate alternatives.
It makes perfect sense for them to cast the widest net they can in this moment. And it also makes sense for them to try to stifle the non-corporate side before it has a chance to gain any solid footing.
The regulatory environment isnt doing the NFT-based game ownership model any favors.
On Lemmy it’s entirely up to the moderators of any given instance or community. Some instances are fiercely anti-censorship. Some will have a more restrictive approach. We can always create new instances and communities, and vote with our engagement.
Hooray for decentralization and federation.
Thanks for reminding me to save the above comment! Wefwef (now Voyager) ftw but hope you get it on Memmy, too, ASAP.
Not sure who they surveyed. Sure as hell didn’t ask me.
This thread isn’t complete without mentioning how Super Mario Bros 3 was introduced to the world in the climax to the movie The Wizard.
Such a core memory of my childhood. Blew my tiny little mind.
Good bot. The best. Phenomenal. Everybody’s saying it. Good people. Smart people.
That sound like addressable design challenges
Most informed comment ITT. Thank you for sharing it.
Well put
The internet as we knew it wasn’t free. We were the product. Here’s hoping their drive to force payment sends us on to decentralized, open source infrastructure.
Jaws was a low key banger of a game. Loved it.
I’m just here for the beans
What’s 95% of zero?
Seriously though I am one person seeking open source alternatives and I came here because others showed me the way.
The number is not zero, and the cultural moment is ripe for non-corporate options unless corporates recapture the audience before they’ve even lost them.
That’s the crux of my perspective.
Ok what was the liquid? That sounds useful.
Literally those two phrases at least once a month lol
You can select up to five contacts that also have an iPhone to help you get back into your account if you get locked out (ex. losing your phone and getting a new one)
Ok how do I download videos on Lemmy?
I’m using Voyager (formerly wefwef) on iOS
Thank you for the helpful replies! 🙏
Satan here. Just want you to know I’m a big fan.